Series: Progress in Political Economy

Why do multinational mining corporations use participation to undermine resistance? Do the struggles of local communities, activists, and NGOs matter on a global scale? Why are there so many different global standards in mining? Undermining Resistance develops a new critical political economy approach to studying extractive accumulation. It draws on three detailed Indonesian cases to explain how participatory mechanisms continuously...

China has moved from being one of the poorest societies to a level now similar with other relatively developed Third World societies - like Mexico and Brazil. The dominant idea that it somehow threatens to 'catch up' economically, or overtake the rich countries, paves the way for imperialist military and economic aggression against China. King's meticulous study punctures the rising-China...